باسيل: نتخوف من ان يصبح لبنان معبرا للجهاد والحل يكمن بتسليح الجيش

it should be, and unlike mnasour, he did not take sides, and speaking in general terms. I do believe his next step would be to ask to have no other militias in Lebanon and only the Lebanese army to apply the rules and laws. but what i am speaking of is what he said, nothing wrong. again i believe the FPM would be the biggest party that can bring back Lebanon, but not when it is allied to HA and covers for one militia against the next. Let Aoun return to his words in France, not join M14, but really say things the way they need to be said. and it can rule Lebanon and take it back to its rightful place. pity he changed, Lebanon could have been so much.
give them time, they will, and i believe they are in the process of, find out how unholy their alliance is with HA.

Roar, Bassil's words were like a spray of mist in the face compared to Mansour. and regardless if i am against their current position (mainly their alliance with HA, and christian cover for them) does not change the fact that what was said is to lebanons benefit. I hope he continues in these steps and takes further ones that will distance himself from HA, AMAL and other thugs (not to say that he should join M14) but if he can walk that fine line, between what he used to say in France and his fight against corruption and building of the state, there is hope for Lebanon.

P.S. i NEVER said i am pro-M14, i am pro-lebanon, and will talk out of conviction and my own firmly held principles. i am anti HA, i do not believe there can be a state with such a party in existence. i am also anti old guard, and that means all our "elected" politicians. i do not believe a single one of them has lebanon's interest at heart. and would love a changing of the guard. If you ask me who i would vote for president, PM, speaker, and 164 times MP it would be baroud.

arzak.

"All lebanese. not this petty foreign serving concotion HA" 100%
"Syria being on level playing field of enmity to lebanon as israel" 100%

Nicely said.

Roar, take it from me. Unfortunately, when the time does come and the fpm asks HA to disintegrate militarily, you will see the answer will be NO and a campaign launched against Aoun and others of being zionists. Aoun will not be able to disarm HA peacefully. Only Iran can do that. And they are not letting go of their ace because Aoun said so. Then what?

LF. Thank you. If only more people in Lebanon saw that we are surrounded by enemies of equal calibre maybe that would unite us. But to most of us it is one or the other. What a shame to lie to yourself like that.

and sorry i meant 128 times MP for Baroud.. do not know where i got the 164 from.

what basil is saying is full of contradictions:

1- strengthen the army: hezballa his close ally doesn't want a new strong sheriff (lebanese army) in town to uncover their mafia activities.

2- “...we fear that lebanon will become a passageway for jihadists.” this is absolutely true and its because once again his close ally ha along with others are interfering in syria's conflict thus bringing retaliation into Lebanon.

3-“...we can no longer adopt the open door policy..." damn right so shut the f... door in both directions if once again hezballa your close ally will let you do it???!!!

4- "...the importance of lebanon's right to liberate occupied land.." : what occupied land??? mazere3 sheb3a was in syrian hands when the israelis occupied it and yet, syria and the un till now refuse to acknowledge sheb3a as lebanese territories. in my dictionary the only occupied territories left are somewhere else between the Palestinian camps and the mrabba3et amnieh run by pro Iranians and pro and anti syrian regime proxies.

5- "...we demand that the refugees be fairly distributed...in near and far arab countries..." yes absolutely right but then again your hezballa ally antagonized the overwhelming majority of arab populations across the board from morocco to the arabian peninsula without forgetting north africa and considering this fact do you expect any favorable outcome to your request from any arab countries?????!!!!!

Roar 100percent.
What we need now is a supper assertive president who has strong arab contacts that demands our rights. But not specially from the west. It is the arab worlds who should pay up. KSA, Kuwait, Qatar, Emirates... These rich sunni countries should be in the first line of help, since lebanon is hosting people from their umma.

eagle. Yeah. nice way of looking at it. But iran's budget for lebanon is only to help destabilize lebanon. There is no budget for other "issues"

agreed)